Ancient Music
This describes music written for worshipping in a religion.
What is "Sacred Music"?
This group or organization controlled the rules all sacred music had to follow.
What is the Catholic Church?
This major technological innovation made it easier to make and sell music for a profit.
What is Printing?
This musical work is like a play, but all of the lines are delivered in song.
What is Opera?
This composer's death in 1750 marks the end of the Baroque Period.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach
This describes music written for reasons outside of religion, usually entertainment.
What is "Secular Music"?
Gregorian Chant was the primary genre for sacred music during the Medieval Period, and was named after this important individual.
Who is Pope Gregory the First?
This word refers to a group of notes used to create music.
What is a mode?
This type of musical work is like an Opera, but there are no costumes or stage movements.
What is an Oratorio?
The Baroque Period features music written to try and sound made up, leading some people to compare it to this genre, well-known for actually making stuff up.
What is Jazz?
This type of clue for learning about ancient music includes old music instruments and performance spaces.
What are "Physical Remains"?
If music has only 1 melody with no other noise, we call it this funny word.
This word describes a technique where a composer will make the musical notes being sung sound like the meanings of the words.
What is 'word-painting'?
This type of song in an opera is used to convey emotions and beautiful music, sometimes making the words harder to understand
What is an Aria?
This genre is music written to feature a soloist or small group accompanied by an orchestra.
What is a Concerto?
This ancient country is the oldest country we have real music theory from, including the modes we still use today.
What is "Ancient Greece"?
If music has multiple melodies at the same time, we call it this funny word.
What is "polyphonic" or "polyphony"?
This event led to more churches being founded, decreasing the power of the Catholic Church.
What is Recitative?
Old textbooks described this composer as a writer of "Perfect Music"
Who is Arcangelo Corelli?
This is the oldest country we have any music notation from, even though we don't fully understand how to read it.
What is "Babylon"?
For many years, the Catholic Church required sacred music to have beats in groups of this number, to represent part of their religious beliefs.
What is 3?
This composer was so famous that people tried to write his name on their own music in hopes of selling more copies.
Who is Josquin Des Prez?
This Composer was born in German, became famous for his Italian operas, and invented the English Oratorio.
Who is George Frederic Handel?
The name for this genre literally means "rule"
What is a canon?